Zeitschrift für Infektionskrankheiten und Pathologie

Abstrakt

Taeniases and Cysticercosis

Nicola Giesen

Taeniases brought about by two species, the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium and the meat tapeworm, Taenia saginata, and 'Asian Taenia', Taenia saginata asiatica, is momentarily outlined. Among these tapeworms, T. solium is one of a kind and has genuine general wellbeing significance, since it causes cysticercosis, particularly neurocysticercosis, the most possibly deadly helminthic infection in people, when tapeworm transporters and others get egg ingestion. Cysticercosis is significantly unique in relation to taeniasis, since the previous is communicated from human (tapeworm transporters) to people including the tapeworm transporters themselves.